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Adrian Younge presents Something About April performed by Venice Dawn - out on Wax Poetics Records

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 01:23

Adrian Younge presents - Something About April - performed by Venice Dawn
(CD/LP/Digital) Wax Poetics Records, 2011-11-29

A few years ago multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge composed an original score for the Blaxploitation tribute and parody Black Dynamite - one of the most hilarious movies of the past decade. And now he's back with a new cinematic project under the mysterious name of Venice Dawn, a killer concept album called Something about April. This is the soundtrack for a fictional film that hasn't been directed yet, in the fashion of the late 60s scores. Playing most of the instruments as he's done on his previous album (plus a very special keyboard of his own called the Selene), Younge is helped this time by Motown legend Dennis Coffey on guitar, funkateer Shawn Lee, italian OST specialists Calibro 35 and young soul singer Rebecca Jordan. Imagine Ennio Morricone meets Al Green meets Portishead and you will get a pretty precise idea of the highly romantic, heavy-soul and psychedelic flavours of the Venice Dawn project.
Check our exclusive interview with Adrian Younge on Paris DJs.

Interview with Adrian Younge (english version)

Saturday 19 November 2011, 14:38

Adrian Younge
(Interview by Nicolas Ragonneau for Paris DJs - november 2011)

Black Dynamite composer and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge gives us an exclusive interview while he releases his new project 'Something About April' performed by Venice Dawn (Wax Poetics Records). On this record one can listen to sheer never-heard-before sounds. Why? The answer is the Selene, a very special lo-fidelity weapon and new keyboard Adrian has invented with friends, and he's got the only copy worldwide.

Soul Train - Dennis Coffey - Jeudi 22 Juin 2011 à La Bellevilloise - ANNULÉ ET REPORTÉ A LA RENTRÉE

Saturday 04 June 2011, 12:42

SOUL TRAIN présente
DENNIS COFFEY Live / DJ Lord Funk
A Tribute to Detroit & Motown Sounds

JEUDI 22 JUIN 2011 à partir de 21H à La Bellevilloise

DENNIS COFFEY à La Bellevilloise! Le guitariste légendaire de la MOTOWN et des TEMPTATIONS vient à Paris pour un hommage appuyé à la scène de DETROIT, Le temple de la SOUL & de la MOTOWN. Il vient de sortir un nouvel album sur STRUT, le label défricheur le plus audacieux en rares grooves et afro soul.

Le DENNIS COFFEY AFTER SHOW se prolongera par un TRIBUTE TO DETROIT & MOTOWN Sounds from Soul to Hip Hop... par LORD FUNK, le DJ Soul Funk fournisseur des Djs producteurs Hip Hop des plus emblématiques Kenny Dope, Muggs, Pete Rock, Q Tip ou encore Questlove.

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Dennis Coffey - out on Strut & Record Store Day 45

Monday 25 April 2011, 12:27

Dennis Coffey - Dennis Coffey
(CD/2xLP/Digital) Strut Records STRUT075CD/LP, 2011-04-25

Strut are proud to announce a priority release for 2011, the new studio album by Detroit guitar legend, Dennis Coffey. Guitarist of choice for major artists as diverse as Del Shannon, Funkadelic and The Temptations, Coffey was a member of the original Motown 'Funk Brothers' backing band and was key in bringing heavy wah wah guitar to soul and R&B during the late '60s. The canon of classics featuring Coffey's work is immense - from Temptations' 'Ball Of Confusion' and 'Cloud Nine' to Edwin Starr's 'War' and Freda Payne's 'Band Of Gold', the list is a roll-call of classic soul and R&B landmarks. As a solo artist, Coffey is perhaps best known for a series of rare groove classics during the early '70s including the million-selling breakbeat staple 'Scorpio' and soundtrack to cult action flick 'Black Belt Jones'. Alongside producer Mike Theodore, his '70s 'Theo-Coff' productions and his prolific guitar work ranged from raw funk to classic disco, including CJ & Co's 'Devil's Gun' and The Sylvers' 'Boogie Fever'. For 2011, Dennis Coffey's new self-titled album is a revelation, a dense, fuzz-heavy haze of incendiary psychedelic soul. Much of the set recalls the sentiments of earlier solo work such as his seminal, trippy 'Hair 'N' Thangs' album...

Dennis Coffey covers Cee-Lo !!

Thursday 18 November 2010, 17:42

Dennis Coffey - F**k You (Cee-Lo Green cover)

Dennis Coffey is back in the studio recording a brand new album, signed up to Strut for release in 2011. As a teaser, he gathered together a crew of Detroit friends and associates for a video to his cover version of Cee-Lo's hit, inspired by the Motown sound in which Coffey played a key role.